5 Biggest Lessons From Publishing Online for 5 Years
Quit assuming the worst
Five years ago, I hit publish for the first time.
At the time, I was stuck in a 9–5 career I hated. My job was in sales, but I studied finance on the side as I was determined to retire early.
I openly shared all I knew with friends and coworkers as I wanted to fill in the gaps that college didn’t teach us. After helping enough people, someone at work said I should start a blog.
I figured why not — even though I had no clue what a blog was. So to start 2016, I put the new year momentum to use and launched my first blog. A week later, I hit publish on arguably one of the worst pieces of content on the internet.
But I did it.
I started.
While it sounds cliché, this one decision created a butterfly effect in my life. 15 months later, I quit my 6-figure job to blog and pursue professional golf. Some called it a quarter-life crisis, while I thought it was the only route to find happiness in my work.
Since then, I’ve become a top freelance golf writer, built a 6-figure writing business, and now coach other writers. Not to mention, I never had to crawl back to a 9–5 that I hated so much.
